On my favorite homeschooling board, this question was asked recently: What parent/teacher books on homeschooling/classical education are a "must read" in your opinion?

For me, the books that have made the biggest impact recently are The Latin Centered Curriculum: Home Schooler's Guide to a Classical Education, The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (ongoing impact), and some Elijah Co. essays collected in the book I Saw the Angel in the Marble.

I have different lists for when I was first learning about homeschooling... when the boys were under 7... and when I was first figuring out my own way.

- In the very earliest months of learning about homeschooling, I throughly appreciated various books by Linda Dobson, Mary Griffith, and Mary Pride.

- My biggest influences in terms of finding my own way were Rebecca Rupp's Getting Started on Home Learning: How and Why to Teach your Kids at Home, David Guterson's Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense, the Walshes' Natural Structure: A Montessori Approach to Classical Education at Home (with a sacramental/Catholic faith), The Well Trained Mind, and now The Latin Centered Curriculum.

- When my oldest was still primary age (under 7), I also poured over books about Maria Montessori and the Montessori method in schools and at home, and Ruth Beechick's set of 3 little pamphlets about the three Rs.

This year, on my desk at all times for easy reference are:
The Latin Centered Curriculum
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School, by Rebecca Rupp
Science Scope, by Kathryn Stout (not sure this is what I wanted, but it'll do).

I'm currently reading Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, by Tracy Lee Simmons. I hear from others of a similar bent that it's right up there with LCC in significance for them, so I'm taking the opportunity to read it.

And there you have it. Hmm. Perhaps I'll browse through some of these books again.

Posted by Titus2woman

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